I am finally getting used to the clocks changing. I suppose I am getting used to the Obama victory and maybe even the Harper one, too. Maybe even getting used to not being half my age now that I think of it. Is autumn the season of acceptance? Do we rage or go quietly into these dark nights and …

Even though I totally rule the Google search for "Canada Votes" amongst, you know, the semi-pro semi-literate set, forgetting those bulky government and media sites ahead of me...yet I am bored. I have no idea how I will vote. Someone polled me by phone for the Tories tonight and I didn't even …

I like Maine. You know I like Maine. Google knows I like Maine for God's sake. This year we are renting an urban cottage and looking forward to it. I have no idea as to the internet access so we will see how you cope.  •  Your weekly PEI is outraged over something update: Now the government is …

When you think about it, blogs really should be just Friday Bullets. No one really wants to know the half-baked opinions of strangers. No one really is interested in how many ways the unhappy and unintelligent drop-outs and dopes who post comments can insult. They want to know about the stuff that …

We live in a time of great fear. Terrorism. Financial instability. Food security...or is that now "nutrisekur"? Well, here's one more - tiny substances:  •  A blue-ribbon scientific panel has waved a yellow flag in front of a rapidly expanding number of products containing nanomaterials …

About 35 years ago when George Carlin used to appear on TV's Sonny and Cher Show and things like that, he used to pretend he was doing a TV news anchor man reporting on quirky items - the sort of thing SNL ripped off a few years later. Once he told this joke: "Scientists have discovered that …

May two-fer. That is the level to which the legacy of England's fourth best  •  Queen has been relegated. Drunks at the cabin. I know one. He's there already.  •  While I prepare to go to my day's labour. It's going to rain all weekend, too.  •  No gardening for me and less fishing for the man in …

There must be plenty of fun around the water cooler when you work at the Vatican's observatory:  •  “Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space...The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article …

May. Almost mid-May. This is the best part of the year, right? Is there anything better than the pre-black-fly world? It's like mosquitoes (is there an "e"?) don't exist, let alone wasps and hornets. It's still all about the plants but not quite yet the mowing. May is a time of imagination …